Search

Search Results

• Blog / MIT Life

  the world is blooming! and so am i?

  

  ="Undergraduate Research Opportunity, where students get to contribute to real research on ... with the colors of a tree: from green, to orange, to white, to pink, and back to green. Even past elementary school, in fact--my high school

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 17, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  What is weather? ...and what is rain?

  

  weather works when you’re not in California? Every morning I've resorted to ... amazing as the icon makes it out to be. Last Tuesday the high was 84 ... middle of the tropics. (OK, bad analogy, but you get the point.) I was

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 9, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Really, I don’t feel like thinking of a title right now Now there's a title cop-out you can only use once. Good thing I saved it…

  

  found each other online and chatted a little before getting to MIT. By the ... As much as I hate Twitter, I think I'm going to follow the trend of ... to these strict guidelines: Yikes! This is crazy! (See any typos

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 11, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Week in the Life: Optimism Edition In which I have a particularly tough, enriching week.

  

  unmotivated. Career Fair lasts for three more hours -- all I'd have to go is get ... "I like how you say that with a smile on your face," my hallmate ... for that project made me a half hour late to 4.42J/2.66J/1.044J

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a pedestrian! I’m a motorist! Pedestrian! Motorist! Read on, my children, and you shall see of our midnight ride to IHOP.

  

  to identify the source of this wisdom. Ruth, you're not allowed to play ... down in the parking lot with their head in oncoming traffic to get the ... To begin: "If it weren't for my horse, I never would have spent that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  In which I am no longer new here ...well, it's true.

  

  Development. I've now seen more snow than I ever cared to see in my life; by ... to my former desire to earn a degree in Chemistry (HAHAHAHAHA) and ... goals have clearly shifted quite a bit. This is partially due to a year of

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 11, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Tim Is So Beautiful to me

  

  two. We played rock band in 10-100 together (enough to get rock band ... people. But there's one person I'd like to thank specifically. Michael ... humidity, taking a lot of lumps as we had him try to do sillier and sillier

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 19, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Too busy to write a blog, check out my playlist instead stuff I listen to when I code

  

  [caption id="attachment_88319" align="aligncenter" width="768"] (not by me)[/caption] https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7gPMHAyVIzQRXAkjHDbxty?si=d3d2d64a8f1d48bb Explicit lyrics. Don't play this in front of your

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 14, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  extraordinary and everyday beauty the city in fall is my city

  

  spring in your step, you're about to buy lots of delicious food to cook ... I got up a little early this morning thanks to the time change and decided to walk to Trader Joe's to do my grocery shopping. There's two

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 4, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  长大 on family, thanksgiving, and growing up

  

  effort for people you care about. Sometimes, you have to break your back a ... each day is the same mess of work that needs to get done. As I wrote at ... graduate students from the local university to our house for a Thanksgiving

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer of Learning Because MIT classes don't spend too much time on hacking into computer systems

  

  quality assurance and it's been wonderful to get back to coding. Burning the ... Culture Happy Hour, it's been great to get back to the roots of 6-3. Two ... "Nat, to hack you need to understand systems better than the sys

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 29, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Joint Post] Chatting with Hank Green, the MIT Commencement Speaker interviewing Hank + sharing student stories!

  

  arms when he gets to campus! Interview with Hank We had some questions ... as a whole, etc)? I probably won’t get to see it, but I think someday ... intentionally or unintentionally enforce. I'm so excited for the 2025s to get to

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home is Where the Heart is In which I speak only in trite cliches.

  

  broomsticks (left to your imagination). We've even started a political movement ... what it's like to worry that you're not going to belong, or you'll have ... -or-death matter. While it's not unimportant to determine your initial housing

  • by Tom R. '14
  • December 13, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  Out and about in the fog at the edge of the world

  

  suddenly the void is yours to cut through like a block of stone waiting to be ... you couldn't bring yourself to eat the egg in your hands while you could ... valley till my breath comes back. Feeling the world come to life. Seeing

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Jack of Some Trades, Master of Absolutely Nothing feeling mediocre at mit

  

  place at MIT. What good is it to be at the best school in the world if you're ... studying something that will get people to think I'm smart, I'm disappointed ... they come up, bile burning in the back of my throat, to painfully remind

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 12, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  happy LFDOC! my last semester of undergrad :)

  

  , getting tickets to a last-minute concert, etc.  Being present. I keep ... . Namely:  It’s my very last semester (still trying to wrap my head around this) I have already completed every requirement to graduate (except

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 3, 2025
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  Does the Khan Academy offer practice SATs?

  , and tailored feedback offered by the popular nonprofit learning website ... , on the Khan Academy website.  
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  22 Hiatus Adventures stories from my time away and my first semester back!

  

  actually get out on the water. Over the summer, I finally managed to get on ... get first! It was a dream come true to compete in a sport I’d been ... , it also takes me much longer to get to campus, and I have to plan a lot

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sunday in the Park With chemistry

  

  decency to ring their bells at least 3 meters before nicking off your left ... If you walk down Massachusetts Avenue to the Charles River esplanade and cross the Harvard Bridge without getting knocked over by a militant

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 26, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  rolltreppe I use the word funky loosely in conversation but these tunes are tight. um did…

  

  unfairly multitalented folks. Try to catch them next time you're around ... to do that you have to be really creepy." (Um...thanks?) It is that ... to my favorite MIT band, Rolltreppe. I've been living under a rock

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 21, 2012